focalize

How To Use focalize In A Sentence

• Most men have ability enough, if they could only focalize it into one grand, central, all-absorbing purpose, to accomplish great things. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
• Sadly, no complement for Genghis, but a focalized complement for his shirt. Obama: Hillary's Tough Talk Towards Iran Is "Reflective Of George Bush"
• Such a construction is particularly stable, as these focalize on the line of interest. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures
• The narrative, focalized through its subject, Thomas Cromwell, dwells at greatest length on Henry VIII's quest for an heir and the earth-shattering social, political, and religious consequences it entailed. The Little Professor:
• Versatile men, universal geniuses, are usually weak, because they have no power to concentrate the rays of their ability, to focalize them upon one point, until they burn a hole in whatever they undertake. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
• As in ‘Pat and Pan,’ the story is also focalized through the child, and the child once again has the last word: ‘I never be good girl, but perhaps I be good boy’.
• Every section of the book (until a few passages at the end) is so closely focalized through Mark, Karin, or Weber that even the narration of material event is voiced entirely through their cognitive process. Point of View in Fiction
• The bacilli multiply everywhere, but seem for some reason to focalize chiefly in the alimentary canal, and especially the middle part of it, the small intestines. Preventable Diseases
• The phosphorescence screen is usually a plate covered with some platino-cyanide and mounted in the end of a box of convenient size, the opposite end of which is so shaped that it fits the contour of the face, shutting out the light and allowing the eyes of the observer to focalize on the screen at the end. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
• What is today's equivalent of a lunar landing, the mission that can focalize a nation and inspire people to "ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country? From a War on Terror to a World at Peace